How to use harbour in a sentence
Evidently he feared the subsequent results to himself of harbouring strangers.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryHe had borne too much in silence, but that this harbouring of criminals should go on before his face was more than he could stand.
The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant | Alexander Johnstone WilsonNow as I am called Lawman of this country, it would not be seemly for me to break the law by harbouring outlaws.
Grettir The Strong | UnknownThere are few gimcracks and dust-harbouring rubbish within, and what simple furniture there is is clean—above all the bed-linen.
Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car | Francis MiltounPag said after he thought Thomas wanted to caution us against a bigamist mamma was harbouring.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
British Dictionary definitions for harbour
US harbor
/ (ˈhɑːbə) /
a sheltered port
a place of refuge or safety
(tr) to give shelter to: to harbour a criminal
(tr) to maintain secretly: to harbour a grudge
to shelter (a vessel) in a harbour or (of a vessel) to seek shelter
Origin of harbour
1Derived forms of harbour
- harbourer or US harborer, noun
- harbourless or US harborless, adjective
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